The Joint Health Sector Union of Akwa Ibom State has given Governor Udom Emmanuel 15 days altimatum to reinstate 720 local government workers sacked last year by the state government, majority of whom were health workers.
The group in a statement jointly signed on Tuesday by the Chairman of the state chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Patrick Odu; the Chairman of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Godwin Archibong, and the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, Aniebiet Obot, decried government’s insensitivity to the plights of health workers in the state.
According to the statement which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Uyo, the group called on the state government to release the circular for the implementation of the already agreed 80 per cent of the national consolidated health salary structure (CONHESS).
The statement read in part, “We call on the government to recruit more health workers because of the short fall occasioned by death and retirement.
“The unions therefore demand the immediate reinstatement of the sacked 720 local government workers, majority of whom are health workers.”
“JOHESU in the state is left with no alternative whatsoever than to give Akwa Ibom State 15 day-ultimatum beginning from Monday, June,15, 2020 to accede to the above legitimate demands, failure which an indefinite industrial action would commence on Tuesday, June 30,2020.
